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Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer filed an appeal Thursday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal judge blocked a key portion of her state’s immigration law.

“America is not going to sit back and allow the ongoing federal failures to continue. We are a nation of laws, and we believe they need to be enforced,” Brewer said. “If the federal government wants to be in charge of illegal immigration and they want no help from states, it then needs to do its job. Arizona would not be faced with this problem if the federal government honored its responsibilities.”

“Illegal immigration is an ongoing crisis the state of Arizona did not create and the federal government has refused to fix,” she continued. “[Senate bill] 1070 protects all of us, every Arizona citizen and everyone here in our state, lawfully. It ensures that the constitutional rights of all in Arizona are undiminished.”

A portion of the state law took effect Thursday. But the most controversial provision, which requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they arrest or detain, was blocked by the judge.

The three-page notice of appeal does not offer any clues as to how Brewer’s team will appeal the ruling.

Brewer has harshly criticized President Barack Obama and others who have suggested the law amounts to racial profiling. But the case made by the Justice Department had nothing to do with race or bias, instead focusing on Arizona’s decision to usurp federal authority by trying to enforce immigration laws.

In addition to the appeal, Brewer filed a motion requesting an expedited hearing on the law.

This has nothing to do with Obama's pretended concern about "racial profiling" - does anybody really think he cares??? If you do, you are a fool. He planted that race card because he wanted to incite everyone to be against the bill. Rather, Arizona's bill (which reiterates the state's rights, which are already provided for in its Constitution) throws a major monkey wrench into Obama's "North American Union" dream, to which he will be the self-appointed ruler. Further, he knows it will cause civil unrest, and we all know where he intends to go with this (Marshall Law) - more than likely just before November 2nd elections so there will be no elections..........Pretty smart, huh?? We shall see......

This has nothing to do with Obama's pretended concern about "racial profiling" - does anybody really think he cares??? If you do, you are a fool. He planted that race card because he wanted to incite everyone to be against the bill. Rather, Arizona's bill (which reiterates the state's rights, which are already provided for in its Constitution) throws a major monkey wrench into Obama's "North American Union" dream, to which he will be the self-appointed ruler. Further, he knows it will cause civil unrest, and we all know where he intends to go with this (Marshall Law) - more than likely just before November 2nd elections so there will be no elections..........Pretty smart, huh?? We shall see......

Did anyone else notice that the wrinkles on this dog's face resemble a map of Mexico?

Assuming you are 'this dog',no-one has seen a picture of you.Your picture would be a result of what came out of a dog's rear.Or better yet since you are an avid Oblahma A.K.A, LORD OF THE FLIES dog-crap brigade feeder you would be what landed on the steamy pile having a feeding frenzy.......Don't overindulge the flotus is against gluttony.

CLEARLY she's no fiscal hawk, if she's willing to just keep throwing taxpayer money at a lost cause. Or throw it away on payouts for YEARS of lawsuits by American citizens who get caught up in this 'dragnet'. Apparently the citizens of Arizona didn't need that money for anything else while she tries to circumvent the Constitution and blackmail the feds.

What you all wanna bet this puppy gets rejected, the block of the provisions was made on constitutional grounds, it is very rare for the court of appeals to reverse a clear and concise decision like this one.

SUPREMACY CLAUSE: The clause in United States Constitution’s Article VI, stating that all laws made furthering the Constitution and all treaties made under the authority of the United States are the “supreme law of the land.” Chief Justice John Marshall interpreted the clause to mean that the states may not interfere with the functioning of the federal government and that federal law prevails over an inconsistent state law.

It doesn't get any more clear than that, you don't even need a lawyers degree to understand it, plain old english.

Would have been much better for O'ma to lose, than we would have had the spectacle of accused discrimination every day in TV and hundreds of people suing, now he has to argue why he is defending Mexico and illegal people instead of US citizen and legal immigrants, until the AZ rules will be rule of the land. I am a "white" legal immigrant, I have to show my IDs all the time to local authorities, no one ever considered this discrimination (I have the wrong skin color). Why is it wrong to ask an illegal immigrant but right to ask a legal immigrant. The Police doesn't know either beforehand whether I am legal or not (other than my accent)?

From reading your post you are obviously from the generation inflicted with a public school education that lacked any information on the Constitution. You should read up on it, there is a thingy called the Tenth Amendment. It has not been in vogue since about 1930, but it is still there. The States do have rights despite the best efforts to kill it.

What is being lost in all of this is that the citizens and taxpayers of this Country come first. It obviously comes as a surprise to our government.

Hopefully the SCOTUS will overturn this foolish decision and let Arizona take the steps to protect the citizens of this once great Nation.

You don't stop a leak by mopping up the water; you have to plug the hole. Haul off a few illegal immigrants and there will be a few more seeking to take their place the next day. Haul off a few business owners who knowingly hire illegals and the jobs wont' be there the next day, nor will the illegals seeking those jobs. If Brewer were willing to step up and practice what she preaches then she would be enforcing that part of the law. So how many businesses in AZ will find themselves in hot water as a result of hiring illegal immigrants, the true source of the problem? My guess, a big fat 0. That would be portrayed as anti-business by conservatives so that's a no-no. You know what else you won't see: unemployed AZ residents lining up to fill the jobs formerly held by the illegals that get hauled off. This whole undertaking is a lesson in hypocrasy.

Did anyone else notice that the wrinkles on this dog's face resemble a map of Mexico?

TO "66garderners - aka dog's face":

Have you checked on your face lately? Is it covered with p.. ? You are the type of individual that bends over and kisses the foreigners' as-- and betrays the American people - just because we demand our law to be respected and followed.

Get out of our country and move to Mexico where you deserve their "special treatment to the illegal immigrants" with their "respectful laws to the illegal immigrants".

Enjoy your time over there and make sure that you call their cops racist when they tell you to show your passport.

A federal judge’s injunctioning, Block’s Arizona’s new law from functioning, The state should not meddle, With immigration, that’s fed’ral, Is the court right, or more out to luncheoning? For more, google "LimRickNews".

Have you even read this bill? what would you consider papers? What part of "Lawful Contact" dont you understand? allow me to decipher. the police officers CANNOT just ask anyone they stumble across for proof of citizenship. they must come into lawful contact with them, which means the person under scrutiny must already be suspected of a different crime. "Papers" is a term drummed up by liberals to incite emotion and to make people think that only a birth certificate or some other visa would satisfy an officer, where in fact a driver's liscence could be perfectly acceptable.

66gardeners: Jul. 29, 2010 - 4:33 PM EST

Did anyone else notice that the wrinkles on this dog's face resemble a map of Mexico?

it is people like you that show their own level of self-dissatisfaction through their personal attacks on others. Just because you have no confidence in your own value as a person doesn't make you a qualified judge of others

They say that when a baby is aborted its brains are sucked out of its head and then 20 years later it becomes a liberal . In this case 40 some years later it became a judge.

Another reason why judges need to have term limits.

We can't ask people if they are citizens but we can have sanctuary cities to protect illegals , terrorists and drug lords from federal prosecution. The Government will hire 16,000 IRS Agents to find fine and force every citizen to pay for rationed Health Care but we can't find and deport illegal immigrants. We can post the names of lawbreaking citizens in papers and court dockets but we can't make a public list of illegal immigrants. This isn't justice it is insanity!

One probable result is that the over-the-liberal-edge Ninth Circuit will render a quick, expansive and wrong decision, and the Supreme Court will reverse them, largely restoring the law. The Ninth is the most frequently reversed Circuit.

The supporters of this law have consistently refused to address the problem scenarios that it creates - specifically, US citizens who are judged, based upon "reasonable suspicion," to be illegal can be detained if they don't have proof of citizenship on their person.

It goes without saying that the Tea Party Republicans want to change the fundamental character of this country. And they don't have much in the way of intellectual firepower to articulate their policy choices. (Certainly, Gov. Brewer avoids any serious questioning on immigration issues.) The Tea Party Republicans do have Sharron Angle, who suggests that her supporters use "second amendment remedies" if they don't win the upcoming election. They do have Tom Tancredo, who has described President Obama as more dangerous to US national security than al Qaeda.

Ah...yes...the sight of illegal immigrants protesting what's left of the Arizona law, thanks to an activist judge who ruled against Arizona based on grounds not even raised in the Federal lawsuit, just "warms the cockles of my heart," a phrase frequently used by my Irish grandfather, who arrived in America by way of Ellis Island.

The United States of America is a great country! Is there any other place on the face of the earth where illegal immigrants can take to the streets to vehemently...even violently... protest that our immigration laws should not be enforced at all!?!?!

Another debacle we can pin on our not-so-moderate President and his compatriots in progressivism, not that his predecessors were much better, although they didn't have to ignore record unemployment and the level of violence presently on our southern border.

It appears that illegals are leaving Arizona in droves. We should provide them with very explicit directions to San Franciso y Nueva York. I fact, I'd chip in on a fleet of busses to transport them to these more open-minded sanctuary cities.